Hi, Seamus. I'm replying mainly becaue today is Sunday, and the list tends
to be slow on weekends (especially a holiday weekend in the USA). You may
get better advice in a day or two, but possibly I can get you started a bit.
I don't know much about isapnp, though.
First, does the card absolutely require PnP for its setup, or is there an
option to assign it a fixed IRQ and IO port base some other way? If you
have any alternative, don't use isapnp.
If you must use isapnp, you'll have to describe your problems in more detail
than "I did the pnpdump, edited the conf file to what I thought was right
but got errors about allocating the memory." We can't guess, with any hope
of accuracy, what you "thought was right" or what the errors were. You need
to show us the details.
You might also want to consult the PnP HowTo
(http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO.html). It might give you
more direct help than an article on sound card installation will.
Second, once you have the card set up, you need to have a serial port device
pointing to it. You can do this with "setserial". Since you don't say what
else you have in your system, I'll guess this is the third serial port, so
you need /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1 (the Linux devices that correspond to
COM1 and COM2) for your regular serial ports. So you can use /dev/ttyS2
(COM3) with this port by entering this command:
setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 5 port 0x3e8
To check if this worked, you then enter
setserial /dev/ttyS2
with no arguments; if the response includes the right UART type, the device
now points to the serial port.
Third, it is not clear whether you need to add a module or not. What kernel
version are you running? Does it have serial-port support compiled in or
not? (Does it report finding any serial ports during the boot/init sequence?
Can you use the built-in serial ports already?)
If you do need to add a module ... the method of adding modules is one of
the more distribution-specific variations in Linux, so without knowing what
distribution and kernel version you use, I can't offer focused help.
In Debian, for example, you add the name of the needed module (probably just
serial.o) to /etc/modules. Other distributions add module probes to various
init scripts, the locations of which vary from one distribution to another.
At 01:14 PM 5/28/00 -0400, S�amus Mag Uiginn wrote [in part]:
>Trying to get Linux to see my serial card. It's a ExpresCard920 from
>PacificCommware. ISA board that works with IRQs 3,4,5,9,10,11,12,15 and a
>base address range of 0100h-03f8h. UART is a 16C750. The Win98
>configuration (which is PnP) is: I/O 03E8-03EF and IRQ 5
...
>I checked out an article in Linux Journal on installing PnP devices.
>Example used was for a soundcard. Do a pnpdump, edit the isapnp.conf file
>for the desired settings, then load it. Also said something about loading a
>module. I did the pnpdump, edited the conf file to what I thought was right
>but got errors about allocating the memory. Apparently I'm not editing the
>file correctly. As far as loading a module goes, I'm not sure how to do
>this or even what module I would need.
>
>Anyone have any ideas about how I should go about setting this up? All I'm
>trying now is different settings in the isapnp.conf file until I can get
>one that doesn't give me an error. Completely lost on whether or not I need
>to load a module.
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
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Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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